Difference between revisions of "Sir Moses Montefiore"
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51577" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51577" /> == | ||
<p> a [[Jewish]] philanthropist, was born | <p> a [[Jewish]] philanthropist, was born October 24, 1784. He was an opulent merchant of London, and was successively knighted and raised to a baronecy for his public labors; having served as sheriff of London in 1837, and also high-sheriff of Kent. He went in 1840 on a benevolent mission to the East, and on others in 1840 and 1867, in behalf. of his oppressed brethren. In the latter year he founded a Jewish college at Ramsgate. In 1875 he visited [[Jerusalem]] the seventh time. He died at Ramsgate, July 28, 1885. See his Centenary Biography, by Lucien [[Wolf]] (Lond. 1884; N.Y. 1885); The American Hebrew, October 9, 1885. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_76733" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_76733" /> == | ||
<p> A philanthropic | <p> A philanthropic Jewish banker, born in Leghorn; a friend to the emancipation not only of the oppressed among his own race, but of the slave in all lands; lived to a great age (1784-1885). </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
Latest revision as of 11:19, 15 October 2021
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
a Jewish philanthropist, was born October 24, 1784. He was an opulent merchant of London, and was successively knighted and raised to a baronecy for his public labors; having served as sheriff of London in 1837, and also high-sheriff of Kent. He went in 1840 on a benevolent mission to the East, and on others in 1840 and 1867, in behalf. of his oppressed brethren. In the latter year he founded a Jewish college at Ramsgate. In 1875 he visited Jerusalem the seventh time. He died at Ramsgate, July 28, 1885. See his Centenary Biography, by Lucien Wolf (Lond. 1884; N.Y. 1885); The American Hebrew, October 9, 1885.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A philanthropic Jewish banker, born in Leghorn; a friend to the emancipation not only of the oppressed among his own race, but of the slave in all lands; lived to a great age (1784-1885).
